It appears that we have turned Bangladesh into a hermetic kingdom where we introduced rules and practices that cannot be found anywhere else in the world. Traffic lights are a pertinent example where you see vehicles crossing key roundabout while the "red" is on, pressing the need of traffic police at every traffic lights to force every vehicle to obey the rules. By the same token, Bangladesh has devised some unique ways for individuals who aspire to become filthy rich in a densely populated country where residual ash from an earthen stove and cowdung are sold and generate profit.
Below are some of the techniques frequently used by the successful summiteers and the nouveau riche:
Recipe#1: subscribe to a political party (cadre based ones are even better), look for empty govt lands, set up a slum and collect monthly rents. Perks include regular payments, surpass the total monthly rents, paid by drug sellers. Bata with its more than 1000 sales centers across Bangladesh made a profit of around Tk 50 crore last year. One single slum could make that money in one month!
Recipe#2 : subscribe to any political party (cadre based ones are even better), take huge amount of loan from banks using your political status, forget to pay them, spend some to raise media outlet or to donate cultural events or religious charities, grab abandoned industrial plot, become willful defaulter and take more loans.
Recipe#3: befriend a politician, civilian and military bureaucrat, get some permit/ license of lucrative business, boast your friendship with powerful elite, police and military in social events and social media to convince people you have high connections, exploit this link to squeeze benefits from business deals and transaction, put up a barrier to entry to your competitors, sponsor political and armed forces run events,launder your wealth abroad so that in adverse time or in any change of power your wealth and business remains untouched and be loyal and faithful to your connections.
Recipe#4: subscribe to any political party (cadre based ones are even better), set up illegal bazars on roadside, collect rents from them, in addition also collect protection money and utility bills, form an association of businessmen, become its member or president, hire some actors to behave like transgender, force them to do begging at key roundabouts, get a trade license and set up a business to whiten your extortion money.
Recipe#5: get membership of various wings of political parties (cadre based ones are even better), start doing export-import business, look for cash incentives / funds available for entrepreneurs/ exporters, swindle those funds, prepare some fake documents to misappropriate cash incentives, bring some money through your fake export partner to convince people you are really doing some export business, start producing cinemas (biopics or folklore stories are good choices to start with), spend some for generating PR about your film(tell the press a swollen figure), declare that your film made an astronomical sum of profit in the box office, and whiten part of the swindled money.
Recipe#6: get membership of any political party (cadre based ones are even better), erect a party office in local bazar, start collecting regular money from the vehicles at bus stand or tempo stand, grab some government property or land belongs to vulnerable people, construct a market complex on that land, bribe city planning officials and exceed floor limits, set up a garments factory, pay irregularly to your staff, switch side if there is a change in government, set your factory on fire and claim insurance from the companies, shut down indefinitely your company if there is unrest , fire the agitating workers, recruit fresh workforce,put blame on rivals or conspirators, ask for loan from banks to recuperate from industrial disaster and read biography of Sohel Rana, owner of Rana Plaza.
Recipe#7: set up a multi-level firm under disguise of cooperative or youth financing institution, collect deposits from members promising your company have lucrative businesses abroad, give some of the members regular monthly payments dubbing them "profit" so that they could bring new members, buy a piece of land in a remote part of the country and plant trees telling the members their money is in good use, set up super market and force members to buy goods from those supermarkets, launch a media house, try to run for MP election or finance electoral campaign of a party, buy citizenship of a foreign country, dissolve your MLM company one fine morning and melt into abroad.
Recipe#8: get enlisted with any ministry or government organization as constructor/vendor, set up a construction company, take part in bidding process of government projects, bribe politicians or ministry officials involved with the projects, influence them to prolong the duration, build the infrastructure with substandard materials so that it lasts only one monsoon or quarter of its lifetime, sponsor foreign trip of project officials or investigator probing development and quality of a project, submit forged documents and siphon off project money prior to its completion, project procurement cost couple of times higher than usual by manipulating input price in connivance with input seller, donate generously to religious charities and cultural events, visit regularly posh bars scattered across bureaucratic area and political hotspots where leaders and bureaucrats of all hues throng to have a peg and discuss potential projects and course of future politics, try to be in good book of social elites and law enforcement officials and intimidate your rivals with the aid of hooligans supplied by your political backers.
Recipe#9: be close with agencies that operate eavesdropping devices, use this relationship to spy on your rival in business and politics, sponsor personal events /trip of your "man/men" in armed forces or law enforcement agencies, make some of them your shadow partner via their relatives, buy commercial plot at crucial area where everyone else is leaving because of receding business, be part of a social movement so that you radiate an aura of changemaker, launch media outlet and pay the journalists lavishly, milk promising men-in-fatigue and law enforcement officials who will adorn key positions in future so that they cannot put obstacles in your future business ventures or political ambition, aim the mega projects or projects being financed by export credit, and make good use of your deep state connections by trying to be political party's accountant for bagging commission of projects financed by export credits.
Recipe#10: get membership of a political party (cadre based ones are even better), set up a philanthropic institution / orphanage/ seminary/charity, try to get foreign funds for your charity, reach out to foreign donors, convince them and fetch as much money as possible, start building some sort of infrastructure for your charity, aim wealthy retired foreign couples who have little knowledge on your country and countrymen, send pictures of some apartment building under construction and present it as your future charity house, do not send pictures of Sangsad Bhavan or Supreme Court as your charity house because these sites are well known in the cyber world, take some pictures at an orphanage, convince your would be donors that you really take care of these poor souls, be part of some cultural movement, pay visit to the place the cultural movement originated or the artist or the legend was born, set an organization named after that movement or legend, try to find out some foreign donors who are kindred spirits, squeeze as much fund as possible from these donors, do not provide your original address, invite them to visit Bangladesh to see the progress of projects they funded, show them some hoax sites or take them to the neighboring country and introduce them to some paid guys who will convince them that you are really a philanthropist and cultural connoisseur, get some paid awards from some hoax organization ( foreign ones will add more value),publicize your charity work and cultural programs in social media and little known news sites, and go for hiding for few months if you get caught in fraudulent activities and make sure you have good connections in ministry of foreign affairs because cheated foreign donors may approach foreign ministry to lodge complaints against you.
Recipe#11: get close to ruling party, grab license for a new bank, make every family member of your family director of the new bank, take loan from other bank to invest in the new bank, manage accounts or funds of public organizations, take loans from other banks using your bank director credential, launder the money abroad and become wilful defaulter.
Below are some of the techniques frequently used by the successful summiteers and the nouveau riche:
Recipe#1: subscribe to a political party (cadre based ones are even better), look for empty govt lands, set up a slum and collect monthly rents. Perks include regular payments, surpass the total monthly rents, paid by drug sellers. Bata with its more than 1000 sales centers across Bangladesh made a profit of around Tk 50 crore last year. One single slum could make that money in one month!
Recipe#2 : subscribe to any political party (cadre based ones are even better), take huge amount of loan from banks using your political status, forget to pay them, spend some to raise media outlet or to donate cultural events or religious charities, grab abandoned industrial plot, become willful defaulter and take more loans.
Recipe#3: befriend a politician, civilian and military bureaucrat, get some permit/ license of lucrative business, boast your friendship with powerful elite, police and military in social events and social media to convince people you have high connections, exploit this link to squeeze benefits from business deals and transaction, put up a barrier to entry to your competitors, sponsor political and armed forces run events,launder your wealth abroad so that in adverse time or in any change of power your wealth and business remains untouched and be loyal and faithful to your connections.
Recipe#4: subscribe to any political party (cadre based ones are even better), set up illegal bazars on roadside, collect rents from them, in addition also collect protection money and utility bills, form an association of businessmen, become its member or president, hire some actors to behave like transgender, force them to do begging at key roundabouts, get a trade license and set up a business to whiten your extortion money.
Recipe#5: get membership of various wings of political parties (cadre based ones are even better), start doing export-import business, look for cash incentives / funds available for entrepreneurs/ exporters, swindle those funds, prepare some fake documents to misappropriate cash incentives, bring some money through your fake export partner to convince people you are really doing some export business, start producing cinemas (biopics or folklore stories are good choices to start with), spend some for generating PR about your film(tell the press a swollen figure), declare that your film made an astronomical sum of profit in the box office, and whiten part of the swindled money.
Recipe#6: get membership of any political party (cadre based ones are even better), erect a party office in local bazar, start collecting regular money from the vehicles at bus stand or tempo stand, grab some government property or land belongs to vulnerable people, construct a market complex on that land, bribe city planning officials and exceed floor limits, set up a garments factory, pay irregularly to your staff, switch side if there is a change in government, set your factory on fire and claim insurance from the companies, shut down indefinitely your company if there is unrest , fire the agitating workers, recruit fresh workforce,put blame on rivals or conspirators, ask for loan from banks to recuperate from industrial disaster and read biography of Sohel Rana, owner of Rana Plaza.
Recipe#7: set up a multi-level firm under disguise of cooperative or youth financing institution, collect deposits from members promising your company have lucrative businesses abroad, give some of the members regular monthly payments dubbing them "profit" so that they could bring new members, buy a piece of land in a remote part of the country and plant trees telling the members their money is in good use, set up super market and force members to buy goods from those supermarkets, launch a media house, try to run for MP election or finance electoral campaign of a party, buy citizenship of a foreign country, dissolve your MLM company one fine morning and melt into abroad.
Recipe#8: get enlisted with any ministry or government organization as constructor/vendor, set up a construction company, take part in bidding process of government projects, bribe politicians or ministry officials involved with the projects, influence them to prolong the duration, build the infrastructure with substandard materials so that it lasts only one monsoon or quarter of its lifetime, sponsor foreign trip of project officials or investigator probing development and quality of a project, submit forged documents and siphon off project money prior to its completion, project procurement cost couple of times higher than usual by manipulating input price in connivance with input seller, donate generously to religious charities and cultural events, visit regularly posh bars scattered across bureaucratic area and political hotspots where leaders and bureaucrats of all hues throng to have a peg and discuss potential projects and course of future politics, try to be in good book of social elites and law enforcement officials and intimidate your rivals with the aid of hooligans supplied by your political backers.
Recipe#9: be close with agencies that operate eavesdropping devices, use this relationship to spy on your rival in business and politics, sponsor personal events /trip of your "man/men" in armed forces or law enforcement agencies, make some of them your shadow partner via their relatives, buy commercial plot at crucial area where everyone else is leaving because of receding business, be part of a social movement so that you radiate an aura of changemaker, launch media outlet and pay the journalists lavishly, milk promising men-in-fatigue and law enforcement officials who will adorn key positions in future so that they cannot put obstacles in your future business ventures or political ambition, aim the mega projects or projects being financed by export credit, and make good use of your deep state connections by trying to be political party's accountant for bagging commission of projects financed by export credits.
Recipe#10: get membership of a political party (cadre based ones are even better), set up a philanthropic institution / orphanage/ seminary/charity, try to get foreign funds for your charity, reach out to foreign donors, convince them and fetch as much money as possible, start building some sort of infrastructure for your charity, aim wealthy retired foreign couples who have little knowledge on your country and countrymen, send pictures of some apartment building under construction and present it as your future charity house, do not send pictures of Sangsad Bhavan or Supreme Court as your charity house because these sites are well known in the cyber world, take some pictures at an orphanage, convince your would be donors that you really take care of these poor souls, be part of some cultural movement, pay visit to the place the cultural movement originated or the artist or the legend was born, set an organization named after that movement or legend, try to find out some foreign donors who are kindred spirits, squeeze as much fund as possible from these donors, do not provide your original address, invite them to visit Bangladesh to see the progress of projects they funded, show them some hoax sites or take them to the neighboring country and introduce them to some paid guys who will convince them that you are really a philanthropist and cultural connoisseur, get some paid awards from some hoax organization ( foreign ones will add more value),publicize your charity work and cultural programs in social media and little known news sites, and go for hiding for few months if you get caught in fraudulent activities and make sure you have good connections in ministry of foreign affairs because cheated foreign donors may approach foreign ministry to lodge complaints against you.
Recipe#11: get close to ruling party, grab license for a new bank, make every family member of your family director of the new bank, take loan from other bank to invest in the new bank, manage accounts or funds of public organizations, take loans from other banks using your bank director credential, launder the money abroad and become wilful defaulter.
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